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About the Author

Rosemary High is from Essex, England, where she wrote and published her first novel. She continues to write avidly, with a particular love for poetry and children's literature. The Patchwork Lady is her first collection of poetry. Rosemary now lives in Dallas, Texas with her husband and their charismatic cat.

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The Patchwork Lady is an absorbing account of journeying through life. From the childhood taunts in "Playground Folly", "a peppering fire of sniggers/and the name they licked her by", with its honest admission that the bullied can be bullies themselves, to "I See You", with its awareness of age and mortality "I watch you change like paper burning and spotting with age", there is a strong sense of the growth of a person.Rosemary's style is spare and economical without redundancies. This is poetry that has been considered and honed and she uses powerful and moving imagery. The brutal change from childhood with its dreams to a prosaic adult reality is resisted in "They told me it was time to", keeping the "doodled dreams" safe instead. She is also good at seeing the transformations that other people can cause in the mirrored "I was the one" and "You were the one", while "Ribbon" and "The Expectant House" are full of future promise: "Your bed is at the foot of theirs/blue bow bright".Some poetry is full of menacing implications, like "Medusa weeds splay" beneath the surface "where blossom rests like sugar" ,in the intriguing "A Woman in a Wide Brimmed Hat", and in the scavenging children threatened with a "splintered spoon" and the lanterns in the trees of "Lady of the House".I found these poems engrossing. This is an interesting and thought provoking collection and I hope there is a lot more poetry to come.Shirley Bell